People emigrated to make a better life for themselves and their children, and for a lot of people that meant land. For budding countries such as the United States, Canada and Australia more people working the land and bearing children meant prosperity for the country. Some farmers as they began to prosper bought more land to add to their holdings and pass on to their children.
Land grants were also given to soldiers for appreciation of their service, also a way of paying them, as land was plentiful, money was not.
I have found a few of my ancestors on Land Grant indexes, which give a hint where and what time period to look for the actual documents. Right place... right time... Next would be to look it up in the archives to get all the details, and to be sure it is indeed my ancestor.
Relevant Links
Land Grants for Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1782-1786
Early grants of land in the wildernesse north of Merrimack, Mass 1892
The Houmas land claim, New Orleans, 1859
The Vincennes donation lands in late 1700's - Indiana 1949
Massachusetts land grants in Vermont
Documents relating to Talbot's Settlement (Ontario) 1836
Copy of the old records of the town of Duxbury, Mass 1642-1770
Abstract of permits granted under the Acts for the Armed Occupation of Florida 1848
History of New Netherland: or, New York under the Dutch 1848
Dyer's index to land grants n West Virginia - 1896 Vol 1
Dyer's index to land grants in West Virginia - 1896 Vol 2
Report of the Select Committee on Pondoland Lad Grants, S.A. 1906
Chronological list or index of grants en fief and royal ratifications of grants en fief, made in New France, to the time of its cession to the British Crown in 1760
List of lands granted by the crown in the Province of Quebec: 1763-1890
Liste des terrains concédés par la Couronne dans la province de Québec: 1763-1890
The District of Moose Jaw, North West Territories as a field for emigration (with accounts by residents and names of wheat farmers) 1889
Description of Van Damien's Land (Tasmania) with important hints to emigrants 1822 - with names of granted lands.
The Colony of Western Australia : A Manual for Emigrants and lists of land grants - 1839
History of Brome County, QC - including grants of land
Year book, the Society of Colonial Wars in Kentucky, 1917 ; to which is added a calendar of the warrants for land in Kentucky
Township grants of lands in New Hampshire included in the Masonian patent issued subsequent to 1746 by the Manonian proprietary - 1896
Warrantees of land of Pennsylvania 1898 - Vols 24, 25, 26
*Land grant - West Kootenay, BC - for Alexander Wesley McIntosh 1895
*Land grant - Fredericksburg, ON - for Christiane Buth (d/o W. Rambough UE)
The dutch grant, Harlem patents and tidal creeks (ancient Dutch deeds) NY 1889
Reports of land cases determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (w/ index to claimants) 1862
Index to Australian Land Records
Indexes to Land Grants of Canada - LAC
Index to New Brunswick Land Grants
Grantham and Wickham, Drummond, Qc - Lots for Soldiers 1815-1816 ***
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